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There a lot that I like about the Purgatorio. I mean, I like the fact that
there’s time. Uniquely among the three canticles, the Purgatorio takes place
against a backdrop of time. Time is weird—it doesn’t work the same way for
the penitent souls as it does for us, you know—and it’s really clear,
especially in Purgatorio and the Paradiso, that Dante is experiencing these
regions of the afterworld on demo mode.
Karla Mallette is a professor of
Italian and Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her
work focuses on the relationship between literary traditions in the medieval
Mediterranean, especially Arabic, Latin, and Romance vernaculars. Her earlier
books include The Kingdom of Sicily,
1100–1250, and European
Modernity and the Arab
Mediterranean. Her most
recent book, called Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the
Medieval Mediterranean, will appear in 2021. She joins Chris and Suzanne to
talk about all the feels in the Purgatorio, as well as what it’s like to teach
the poem to a wide variety of students.
Show Notes.
The Inferno as translated by Mark Musa
[Bookshop] or Charles
Singleton. Also available free online in Allen
Mandelbaum’s translation (with useful notes by Teodolinda
Barolini) at Digital Dante.
Jacques Le Goff: The Birth of Purgatory.
Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became
Shakespeare.
(Suzanne, tell us what you really think of Stephen
Greenblatt…)
German expressionist films.
Frederic Leighton: Dante in
Exile.
Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy, book 3 metre
12.
Sandow Birk’s and Gustave
Doré’s illustrations for the
Divine Comedy.
If you are enjoying the show and are able to, please consider supporting us
(and our network) on Patreon. Thanks.
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There a lot that I like about the Purgatorio. I mean, I like the fact that
there’s time. Uniquely among the three canticles, the Purgatorio takes place
against a backdrop of time. Time is weird—it doesn’t work the same way for
the penitent souls as it does for us, you know—and it’s really clear,
especially in Purgatorio and the Paradiso, that Dante is experiencing these
regions of the afterworld on demo mode.
Karla Mallette is a professor of
Italian and Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her
work focuses on the relationship between literary traditions in the medieval
Mediterranean, especially Arabic, Latin, and Romance vernaculars. Her earlier
books include The Kingdom of Sicily,
1100–1250, and European
Modernity and the Arab
Mediterranean. Her most
recent book, called Lives of the Great Languages: Arabic and Latin in the
Medieval Mediterranean, will appear in 2021. She joins Chris and Suzanne to
talk about all the feels in the Purgatorio, as well as what it’s like to teach
the poem to a wide variety of students.
Show Notes.
The Inferno as translated by Mark Musa
[Bookshop] or Charles
Singleton. Also available free online in Allen
Mandelbaum’s translation (with useful notes by Teodolinda
Barolini) at Digital Dante.
Jacques Le Goff: The Birth of Purgatory.
Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became
Shakespeare.
(Suzanne, tell us what you really think of Stephen
Greenblatt…)
German expressionist films.
Frederic Leighton: Dante in
Exile.
Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy, book 3 metre
12.
Sandow Birk’s and Gustave
Doré’s illustrations for the
Divine Comedy.
If you are enjoying the show and are able to, please consider supporting us
(and our network) on Patreon. Thanks.
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